“in recognition of the extraordinary services they have rendered by their joint researches on the radiation phenomena discovered by Professor Henri Becquerel; in recognition of her services to the advancement of chemistry by the discovery of the elements radium and polonium, by the isolation of radium and the study of the nature and compounds of this remarkable element”
Marie Curie was a Polish-French physicist and chemist who pioneered the study of radioactivity. She was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1903 and the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1911 for her work on radiation phenomena and the discovery of radium and polonium.
- Field
- Chemistry · Radiochemistry
- Lifespan
- 1867–1934